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Ritica Maheshwari

Youth from underserved communities are pushed to make poor career choices based on their academic achievement and context, not allowing them to thrive and realize their potential. Moreover, they find it difficult to reinvest in their learning and change their career tracks later due to financial constraints. This happens due to:<ul><li>Lack of exposure and visibility of diverse career pathways aligned to students’ aspirations and interests. As per our study, 9 out of 10 students don’t have a career goal while in school.</li><li>Lack of access to relevant and aspirational learning opportunities post 12. Less than 10% of students from govt schools reach good colleges.</li><li>Lack of role models to inspire students to take action towards career development. They are aware of only 5-7 typical career pathways limited to Doctor/ Army/ Police/ Teacher/ Govt jobs etc.</li></ul> 
 Alohomora designed and executes CareerShala, a career discovery and planning tool for young people to choose career pathways that align with their contexts, aspirations and strengths. Through facilitated exploration and reflection, students explore diverse sectors and action projects and identify the right career pathway for themselves. We also connect students to the right set of learning opportunities post 12th - be it college applications or identifying and enrolling in the right vocational course in their interest area. We also provide financial assistance to students to pursue a career of choice. 
 Akash was passionate about sports but was dejected about her future due to his low academic performance. He identified the fitness sector to build a career and after some short term courses and on the job training, he is already a certified fitness instructor earning well in his area of interest. Asha convinced her family to let her travel long distances every day to join a multi-cuisine chef course and currently working with a leading restaurant as an assistant chef. Like Asha and Aakash, we have been working with 2500 students to help them identify and choose career pathways that allow them to thrive and feel excited about their work. With our strategic partnerships with UNICEF Yuwaah and Govt of Delhi, we want to enable 1 million students to be on career pathways of their choice, by 2025.

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CareerShala

Lack of exposure and low visibility of diverse careers means most students in India (especially those from underserved communities) are aware of only 5-7 conventional careers such as doctor, engineer, IAS - most of which are inaccessible or involve more financial support than families are capable of providing.Career counselling support is available only to a privileged few. Poor choices in critical school years result in young people ending up in jobs that they don't like. It is difficult to reinvest in their learning and change their career tracks later due to financial constraints. Students’ dissatisfaction with their enrolled courses or jobs leads to confusion and a feeling of inadequacy, leading to massive loss of potential.The problem, therefore, is three-fold:<ul><li>Low exposure and awareness: Students are not aware of careers that align with their aspirations and interests. As per our study, 9 out of 10 students don’t have a career goal while in school.</li><li>Lack of access to relevant and aspirational learning opportunities post grade12: Less than 10% of students from govt schools reach good colleges.</li><li>Lack of role models and career experts: To inspire students to take action towards career development, and to give them the correct information needed to make an informed and intentional career choice</li></ul>These factors contribute towards making a non-supportive ecosystem. It is increasingly difficult for children to find careers that allow them to grow, learn, and thrive. 
 Privilege should not be a prerequisite for aspiration and imagination.We seek to create an ecosystem that supports young people to reach thriving careers matching their strengths and interests. With this vision, Alohomora has designed and executes CareerShala, a portal for career discovery and planning that democratises the complex career decision making process. It is a unique tech-based career exploration intervention, designed around 5 steps a young adult needs to take to make an informed career choice. Based on ideas of inspiration, exploration and reflection, CareerShala introduces students to wide-ranging career options, encourages them to do home-based microprojects to practically experience these careers, and helps them identify the right choice for themselves based on their own assessment of their skills and interests. It connects them with experts, mentors, and professionals across 12 industries, allowing access to the right content and support to choose their career with care and intention. CareerShala combines a standard learning management system (LMS) with a facilitator driven model, which creates a playbook for any facilitator to use these 5 steps with any group of young adults.We also work on two innovative large-scale interventions with the Government of Delhi - Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum and Desh Ke Mentor, which have together impacted close to 3L students.We also connect students to the right set of learning opportunities post 12th - be it college applications or identifying and enrolling in the right vocational course in their interest area. We also provide financial assistance to students to pursue a career of choice. 
 By 2025, we want to empower every child in India to be on career pathways of their choice. We want to create an ecosystem that encourages exploration and reflection, and gives children the tools they need to make the right choices for themselves. When their chosen careers align with their strengths and interests, students thrive in dimensions of life beyond the financial, and we want to see an increase in self-belief and confidence levels, leading to overall growth and fulfilment. In more tangible terms, we want to see more examples like Akash and Asha. Akash was passionate about sports but was dejected about his future due to his low academic performance. He identified the fitness sector to build a career, and after some short term courses and on the job training, he is already a certified fitness instructor earning well in his area of interest. Asha convinced her family to let her travel long distances every day to join a multi-cuisine chef course and currently working with a leading restaurant as an assistant chef. We want to create a space where ALL students like Akash and Asha can identify their strengths and interests, and get the support to build a roadmap and execute their aspirations.

Alohomora - Thriving Careers For All

Parinita Jain

We are immensely grateful for your continued support of Alohomora's mission. We continue to strive towards enabling youth towards bright careers and futures!Together, in 2024, we supported over 38,000 students across Delhi, Haryana, and Uttarakhand, guiding them towards informed career choices. With our continued emphasis to strengthen govt schooling system, we are enabling at-scale programs at the state level in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh and the district level in Jhajjar (Haryana) and Haridwar (Uttarakhand). This allows us an opportunity to enable careers for 3 lakh+ youth this year.Additionally, we have collaborated with UNICEF Yuwaah to run virtual career guidance webinars for students in grades 9-12 across government schools in MP, Rajasthan, Bihar, and UP along with a pilot project for youth who are most marginalized. We are looking to collaborate with other like-minded NGOs like iSaksham and Pratham to further scale our impact.Join us in empowering the youth of India to achieve their career aspirations!

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Career related decision making is a complex process which includes access to quality and continuous education, opportunities for reflection, exposure to mentors, stakeholder support etc., hence a structured ecosystem to provide career support becomes an established need for students from underserved communities to thrive.Most students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, are aware of only 5-7 conventional careers such as Engineer, Chartered Accountant, IAS etc. – most of which are inaccessible to them or involve more financial support than what their families can provide. Hence, with minimum/no support, they end up making decisions based on their limited exposure resulting in jobs that do not allow them to thrive which further leads to a feeling of inadequacy and massive loss of potential.Alohomora seeks to change this narrative by building large-scale structured career support programs to enable all the stakeholders in the ecosystem with the necessary resources and support to take the idea and tools for career exploration to students and empower them to make career choices aligned with their interests and strengths. 
 Our premise is that enabling students to explore and experience careers themselves is the only way to enable career decision making at scale. With this vision, we set up a district-wide career support program, Pratibha Manthan which supports 13K+ students across 176 schools in Jhajjar, through a contextualized career exploration process based on our 5-step CareerShala framework, leverages existing student-teacher connections, and brings together the school administration, facilitators, and role models from the local community to inspire students towards diverse career pathways.Through structured conversations on career aspirations, the students gather information, experience, and confidence to make meaningful career choices for themselves. Our modules include a collection of classroom activities, reflection questions, home-based micro projects and local role model interactions which equip the students with the processes and tools to be on a self-exploration journey about their interests and strengths. We also enable schools to organize showcase events where students exhibit their learnings and reflection. At the center of the program, lies our unique component of incorporating the needs from the field and contextualizing the program accordingly.In the upcoming year, we aim to set up similar district-wide career support programs in 2-3 new districts supporting ~50K students. 
 Pratibha Manthan, our district-wide career support program, capacitated 240+ teachers who conduct weekly career support classes across 115 schools (65% across Jhajjar) resulting in 400+ career sessions, 20+ role model interactions, 80+ student exhibitions in 2.5 months. Furthermore, the program’s embedment in the academic curriculum has resulted in 57.1% students feeling confident in deciding the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of choosing careers, with an increase to 30% students aspiring towards non-traditional courses like diplomas and ITI, and learning skills like fashion and coding.Pratibha Manthan is nominated in the Good Governance Project from Jhajjar, and we aim to scale this impact by building an ecosystem of support which encourages exploration and reflection amongst ~50K students across 2-3 new districts.Amongst one of our students is Deepa whose priority has been ‘to explore and experience it all’; through Alohomora she discovered her diverse interests ranging from Community Lead Fellowship to exploring the IT Enthusiast in herself at NavGurukul. As we see Deepa enjoying and earning well in her interest-aligned job at Royal Bank of Scotland, we aim to empower more young adults like her with the exposure and support to identify their aspirations and build a roadmap towards achieving it.

CareerShala - Building an ecosystem of support to enable right career decisions for Government school students

Alohomora Education Foundation is a Delhi-based not-for-profit working to empower young adults to make right career choices in their contexts through enabling large-scale career support programs to increase exposure, clarity, and confidence in Government school students.Our founders are alumni of prestigious colleges like IIT Madras, IIM Lucknow, University of Michigan and have been in the education space for over a decade now. This has led to Alohomora being one of the youngest yet most impactful organizations in this niche, working to empower young adults to take on to their career exploration journey by allowing them access to contextually relevant content, inspiration, and support to enable them to find career pathways aligned with their interests and strengths.We have current large-scale partnerships in Delhi and Haryana. We work closely with the Government of Delhi on two large-scale interventions – Desh Ke Mentor and Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum – reaching 3 Lakh students in Delhi’s public schools. We collaborated with the District Administration and Department of Education, Jhajjar, Haryana to set up Pratibha Manthan – a district-wide career support program to enable the right careers for 13,000+ students across 176 schools. We are starting another collaborative project with the Employment and Vocational Guidance Bureau, Delhi along with expanding further in 2-3 more districts and supporting ~50,000 students in 2023.At the heart of our different projects is CareerShala, our unique 5-step career exploration framework which democratizes the complex career related decision-making process by empowering young adults with exposure, opportunities for reflection and the skills and tools to build a roadmap for their career journey.We are on a mission to enable 1 million young adults to make career choices in alignment with their interests and strengths by 2025 and we aim to do this by building an ecosystem to provide career related guidance and support so that every individual has the exposure and information to make informed decisions about their careers.

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